Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Somalia and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Charles Mingus to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Blancmange. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Graham Central Station record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Hasil Adkins,
the Sonics,
Marine Girls,
Flash Fearless,
LL Cool J,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
CMW,
The Mummies,
Saccharine Trust,
Nick Fraelich,
Dark Day,
Q and Not U,
Henry Cow,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Throbbing Gristle,
Mo-Dettes,
Half Japanese,
Ossler,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dawn Penn,
Drexciya,
FM Einheit,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Suicide,
Aloha Tigers,
Lower 48,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Coltrane,
Underground Resistance,
Blossom Toes,
Public Image Ltd.,
Susan Cadogan,
Scrapy,
Ultravox,
Gil Scott Heron,
Grauzone,
Amon Düül,
Toni Rubio,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Velvet Underground,
Dead Boys,
cv313,
The Mojo Men,
The Index,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Vogues,
the Soft Cell,
Mr. Review,
Gang Gang Dance,
Rod Modell,
Sugar Minott,
June Days,
Althea and Donna,
Anakelly,
Icehouse,
The Gap Band,
Arthur Verocai,
A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.